PART 6

17 EVIDENCES AGAINST EVOLUTION

11. DATING METHODS

Many of the radiometric dating methods used for determining

the age of fossils are quite unreliable. Carbon-14 dating is

usually sound within a few hundred years span of time. But there

are exceptions to this. For example, a living mollusk was dated

using the carbon-14 method. The readings said it had been dead

for 3000 years.

Lava rocks from a volcano in Hawaii which erupted in 1801

were tested, using the potassium-argon method. The readings

showed them to be nearly 3 billion years old. Moon rocks were

tested by various radiometric methods, yielding dates ranging

from 700 million to 28 billion years.

Dating methods such as potassium-argon, uranium-lead, and

rubidium-strontium, are based on assumptions. These methods are

based on chemical change (uranium to lead, etc.) where the parent

material (ie., uranium) is converted to the daughter material

(ie., lead) at a known rate, called a half-life. These methods

cannot be trusted on the basis that too little is known. In order

to come up with a correct date, you must know:

1. how much of the parent material was in it at the start,

2. how much of the daughter material was in it at the start, &

3. if there has been some type of contamination since.

In obtaining dates now, scientists assume the answers to or

ignore these questions. The fact is that we cannot know how old a

specimen is unless we were there when it was formed.

12. DINOSAURS

Evolutionists insist that dinosaurs died out millions of

years before man appeared. However, there are many reasons to

disbelieve this. There are the stories of animals much like dino-

saurs in the legends of many lands. These creatures were called

dragons.

Many times in the recent past, explorers have recorded

sightings of flying reptiles much like the pterodactyl. Human

footprints were found along with those of a dinosaur in limestone

near the Paluxy River in Texas.

Also not to be tossed aside is the possibility of dinosaurs

living today. Consider the stories such as the Loch Ness monster

(of which many convincing photographs have been taken). Some have

claimed to see dinosaur-like creatures in isolated areas of the

world.

Recently, a Japanese fishing boat pulled up a carcass of a

huge animal that intensely resembled a dinosaur. A group of

scientists on an expedition into a jungle looking for dinosaur

evidence claims that they witnessed one, but their camera was

damaged.

However, they tape recorded the roar of the beast. This

recording was checked. The voice patterns on it did not resemble

those of any other roaring. You decide. At any rate, the evidence

that man and dinosaur did live together at one time poses another

problem for the evolutionists.

"But if the dinosaurs lived at the same time as man, they

would have had to have been on the Ark, and that's impossible!"

Is it? The ark was about one and one-half football fields long,

75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall. It had a cubic footage of

1,518,750.

There would have been plenty of room on the Ark for

the dinosaurs (especially considering that only a few were of the

enormous size of Tyrannosaurus or "Brontosaurus.") Also, the

Bible states that Noah was to take two of every kind onto the

Ark. Many dinosaurs and reptiles were of the same kind, but much

smaller. Dinosaurs pose no problem for creation science.